The Apples of New York

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The remnant of an old apple orchard among wheat fields in Steptoe Butte State Park in Washington.CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times

June 16, 2017

To the Editor:

The romance and history of apples was temptingly described in “In Search of an Ancient Harvest” (news article, May 30). As exciting as this apple culture is as practiced in the Pacific Northwest, we should acknowledge the many decades of similar experimentation by Cornell University at the agricultural station at Geneva, N.Y.

There, ancient apples grow in orchards to be revived or to impart genetic advantages to newly created apple varieties.